Friday the 13th was a day of highs and lows. Let me start with the highs (and a quip or two). Last night, sprite and I went to see Robert Plant (the rock giant) and Alison Krauss (the chanteuse) perform a brilliant show at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Their album, Raising Sand, was my favorite of …
I’m serving out the end of my term on the DC Democratic State Committee, and one of the big votes is tonight: deciding on the unaffiliated add-on (i.e. sorta-super) delegates and the PLEO (elected official) delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Committee Convention. It’s one of the few votes we make that makes any shred …
Why is it the good ones are taken from us too soon? I lost a friend last night. Mike Shor, one of the most enthusiastic, smart, friendly and honest political activists ever to grace Washington, DC, passed away late last night due to a massive stroke. He was on vacation in New Mexico at the …
It’s been five years since George W. Bush and his theocon cronies, with the complicit support of congressional Democrats, brought the United States to war with Iraq. A needless war. A senseless war. A deliberate diversion from the real war on terror and the pursuit of Osama bin Laden. A war that was more about …
If you want to affect change in government, have a say in the future of the U.S. policies both at home and abroad, and have a right to complain when things don’t go the way you want them to: VOTE! I’m just a bit miffed that the young folk didn’t turn out to vote in …
Barack Obama keeps gaining in both state races and nationally because he’s remarkably consistent in tone, poise, delivery and focus of message. At stump speeches, town hall meetings, debates and interviews, he’s confident and consistent. It’s a tone he’s stuck with throughout the campaign, with some variations here and there, but nothing that veers too …
The liberal blogosphere has been an incredible group in its rise to power in Democratic and progressive politics. It has empowered hundreds of thousands of people to voice their opinions on political and social issues great and small, and should be commended for it. But in this 2008 cycle, blogs that used to be open …
This was the scene on Tuesday at my local polling place: a long queue to vote. And this was just the indoor portion, as the line snaked outside and down the block a stretch. It’s a good sign that people are showing up to vote in the primaries. And I’m really pleased that the front-loaded …
Today brings the unfortunate news that the Aumury Sport Organization has banned Astana from all of their 2008 events, including the Tour de France. So there will be no defending champion, as many of Discovery Channel Cycling’s top riders moved to Astana during their off-season reorganization. Alberto Contador won’t be there (1st in 2007). Andres …
(That said, I didn’t vote for him.) A transcript from IM this morning – it sums up the whole thing rather well. The Scene: me, riding my bike back home after a pre-dawn ride at Hains Point, about 6:55 am: I was coming up 22nd St., and it was closed between M and N. I …
